ZOMG GIANT WURMZ N SEESTARZ FEEEDING FRENZY!1!1!!!1
Seriously cool footage at the BBC. Also with a nice little accompanying article that you should read.
In the sequence filmed for the Life series, the invertebrates gather in a frenzy to feast on a seal carcass that has sunk to the ocean floor.
So much food may only arrive in one place once in a decade.
The nemertine worms (Parbolasia corrugatus) are able to puncture the seal’s skin with their proboscis, opening up the carcass, so that worms and marine isopods such as woodlice can enter to feed.
The starfish feed more slowly – by pushing out their stomachs through their mouths.
As a sea star pushes its stomach against the seal’s skin, it secretes digestive juices that dissolve the seal’s tissue.
Date Posted: November 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM
November 26, 2009 at 12:02 PMErin Loury
mmm tasty – totally ready to go stuff my face now…
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November 26, 2009 at 7:08 PMDavid Bopp
That could tempt me to go ice-diving. Very cool!
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December 10, 2009 at 4:53 PMmuscle relaxer
You need think about it. Despite the emails, the overwhelming evidence showing global warming is happening hasn’t changed.
“The e-mails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus . . . that tells us the Earth is warming, that warming is largely a result of human activity,” Jane Lubchenco, who heads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told a House committee. She said that the e-mails don’t cover data from NOAA and NASA, whose independent climate records show dramatic warming.
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